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what is this bird?
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: what is this bird?
- From: Jane Peppler <jpeppler@duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 09:02:36 -0400
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Hi,
New member here, I joined to find out what the odd bird is I've seen at
my black sunflower seed feeder in the last week or two. It looks like a
sparrow to me but I am ignorant. It is about the size of the cardinal, a
stocky bird with a kind of thick neck, a beak kind of like a cardinal
and large eyes. It is a brownish-red color, its wings are solid with two
cream-colored stripes, its head is mostly the same brown with a cream
stripe above and below the eye (not through it). There may also be a
cream stripe along the top of the head. It has a little spot of cream a
little bit back from the eye (towards the back of the head). It has
thinnish stripes of the same brown on its cream breast.
I looked in my bird books and didn't see one like it. I thought maybe,
fox sparrow, but the pictures of the fox sparrow I found on the web look
too "round" for this bird. Maybe a vesper sparrow?
I'll try to get a picture if this does not suffice.
Thanks,
Jane Peppler